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Born on this Day
0538: St. Gregory of Tours
1466: Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman, admiral
1508: Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio
1554: Philip Sidney, English poet, statesman, soldier
1667: Irish satirist Jonathan Swift satirist, wrote "Gulliver's
Travels"
1810: Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker.
1835: Novelist Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
1874: British statesman Sir Winston Churchill
1912: Movie director Gordon Parks
1918: Actor Efrem Zimbalist Junior (some sources say 1923)
1920: Actress Virginia Mayo
1924: Former New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm
1927: Actor Richard Crenna
1829: TV personality and producer Dick Clark
1930: Radio talk show host G. Gordon Liddy
1931: Country singer Teddy Wilburn
1937: Actor Robert Guillaume
1937: Country singer-recording executive Jimmy Bowen
1944: Singer Luther Ingram.
1944: Singer Rob Grill (The Grassroots)
1947: Playwright David Mamet
1952: Actor Mandy Patinkin
1953: Musician Shuggie Otis
1954: Singer June Pointer (The Pointer Sisters)
1954: Country singer Jeannie Kendall (The Kendalls)
1955: Singer Billy Idol
1962: Football and baseball player Bo Jackson
1963: Rapper Jalil (Whodini)
1965: Actor-director Ben Stiller
1975: Country singer Mindy McCready
0030 BC: Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, commits suicide
0722: Boniface invested as Bishop of Germany
1016: Death of Edmund "Ironside," King of
England
1216: Pope Innocent III orders Jews to wear a special
badge
1292: Coronation of John Baliol as King of Scotland
1420: Marriage of Gilles de Rais to Catherine de Thonars
1485: Coronation of Henry VII as King of England
1521: Death of Pope Leo X
1603: Death of Khwaja Muhammed Baqui Billah, Sufi mystic
and missionary
1616: "The Margaret," loaded with colonists,
lands at Hampton, Virginia
1633: Arrest of Father Urbain Grandier, for witchcraft
1654: William Habington, English poet, dies.
1700: 8,000 Swedish troops under King Charles XII defeated
a force of at least 50,000 Russians at the Battle of Narva. At least 10,000 Russians died
in the battle. The Swedish Army lost 600. Charles XII died on this day in 1718.
1782: The United States and Britain signed preliminary
peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.
1803: Spain completed the process of ceding Louisiana to
France.
1804: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase went on trial,
accused of political bias. (He was acquitted by the Senate.)
1838: Mexico declares war on France.
1853: In the Crimean War, the Russian fleet attacked and
destroyed the Turkish fleet and part of the harbor at the battle of Sinope.
1874: British statesman Sir Winston Churchill was born at
Blenheim Palace.
1875: A.J. Ehrichson of Akron, Ohio, patented the
oat-crushing machine.
1876: The New Free Press of Vienna, this critic who
praised Brahms and condemned Wagner and Bruckner announced that Tchaikovsky's "Romeo
and Juliet" was so dissonant that, quote, "this love bliss runs down the spine
like a cold snakeskin."
1900: Irish author Oscar Wilde died in Paris.
1906: President Theodore Roosevelt publicly denounces
segregation of Japanese school children in San Francisco.
1919 Women cast vote for the first time in French
legislative elections.
1927: Leos Janacek wrote: "I finish one work after
another, as if I were soon to settle my account with life." He was 74 when he wrote
that, in the midst of the most phenomenal Indian summer any composer ever had.
1936: London's famed Crystal Palace, constructed for the
International Exhibition of 1851, was destroyed in a fire.
1939: The Russo-Finnish War started after the Soviet Union
failed to obtain territorial concessions from Finland.
1940: Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz were
married. They would divorce in the 1950's - after the 1954 season run on "I Love
Lucy."
1948: Communists complete the division of Berlin,
installing the government in the Soviet sector.
1949: Chinese Communists captured Chungking.
1950: Sealtest concentrated milk was offered for sale by
the Clover Dairy of Wilmington, Delaware.
1954: Elizabeth Hodges of Sylacauga, Alabama, was injured
when an 8½-pound meteorite crashed through the roof of her house.
1962: U Thant of Burma was elected Secretary-General of
the United Nations, succeeding the late Dag Hammarskjold.
1966: The former British colony of Barbados became
independent.
1967: Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower announced their
engagement.
1974: India and Pakistan decide to end a 10-year trade
ban.
1975: Israel pulled its forces out of a 93-mile-long
corridor along the Gulf of Suez as part of an interim peace agreement with Egypt.
1979: John Paul II is first pope in 1,000 years to attend
an Orthodox mass.
1981: The United States and the Soviet Union opened
negotiations in Geneva aimed at reducing nuclear weapons in Europe.
1982: President Ronald Reagan arrived in Brasilia, Brazil,
to begin a four-nation tour of Latin America.
1982: The motion picture "Ghandi," starring Ben
Kingsley as the spiritual leader who led India to independence from Britain, had its world
premiere in New Delhi.
1983: President Reagan pocket-vetoed legislation that
would have tied continued military aid for El Salvador to its progress on human rights and
land reform.
1983: Robert Sullivan, convicted of the 1973 robbery and
murder of assistant restaurant manger Donald Schmidt, was executed by the state of Florida
despite an appeal from Pope John Paul II to spare him.
1984: West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl visited President
Reagan at the White House to discuss arms control issues.
1986: Time magazine published an interview with President
Reagan, who described fired national security staffer Oliver North as a "national
hero."
1987: An interview broadcast by NBC, Soviet leader Mikhail
S. Gorbachev acknowledged that his country was engaged in "Star Wars"-related
research, but said there were no plans to build a space-based system against nuclear
attack.
1987: Author James Baldwin died in St. Paul de Vence,
France, at age 63.
1988: The Soviet Union stopped jamming broadcasts of Radio
Free Europe for the first time in 30 years.
1988: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Company was declared the
winner of the corporate free-for-all to take over RJR Nabisco Incorporated with a bid of
$24.53 billion.
1989: Alfred Herrhausen, chairman of West Germany's
largest bank, was killed in a bombing in Bad Homburg. The Red Army Faction claimed
responsibility.
1989: President Bush left Washington for his first summit
with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev that took place aboard ships off the
Mediterranean island of Malta.
1990: President Bush announced that Secretary of State James Baker III would go to Iraq in a last-ditch diplomatic peace effort.
1990: President Bush named outgoing Florida Governor
Bob Martinez to head the nation's war on drugs.
Author Norman Cousins died in Los Angeles at age 75.
1991: Boris Yeltsin's Russian Federation agreed to bail
out Mikhail Gorbachev's central Soviet government from a budget crisis that threatened to
cut off the salaries of millions of workers and paralyze the country.
1992: The U.S. Supreme Court sustained women's basic right to abortion, voting 6-3 against reviving a
1990 Guam law that would have prohibited nearly all such
procedures.
1993: President Clinton signed into law the Brady bill,
which requires a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks of
prospective buyers.
1993: Authorities in California arrested Richard Allen
Davis, who confessed to abducting and slaying 12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma.
1994: Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and wounded in New York
during a robbery.
1994: Two passengers died and nearly one-thousand others
and crew members fled the cruise ship "Achille Lauro" after it caught fire off
the coast of Somalia; the ship sank two days later. (The Achille Lauro had gained
notoriety in 1985 when it was hijacked by Palestinian extremists.)
1995: President Clinton became the first U.S. chief
executive to visit Northern Ireland, where he implored Roman Catholics and Protestants
alike not to surrender to the impulses of "old habits and hard
grudges," proving once again his poor understanding of world
problems.
1996: Some 150-thousand people filled the streets of
Belgrade to protest Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.
1996: 1960's novelty singer Tiny Tim, best remembered for
his rendition of "Tiptoe Thru' the Tulips," died in Minneapolis.
1997: Czech Premier Vaclav Klaus formally handed in his
government's resignation in the wake of a campaign financing scandal.
1997: In Tajikistan, French hostage Karine Mane was killed
with five suspected kidnappers when a grenade exploded during a failed rescue operation; a
companion had been released hours earlier.
1998: Deutsche Bank AG officially announced it was
acquiring Bankers Trust Corporation for more than $10 billion.
1998: Quebec's separatist premier, Lucien Bouchard, was
returned to power, but with only 43 percent of the vote, setting back the Parti Quebecois'
goal of seeking independence from Canada.
1999: The opening of a 135-nation trade gathering in Seattle was disrupted by at least 40,000 demonstrators, some of whom clashed with police.
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